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With the College tapering off to prewar normalcy, and most of the Varsity coaches heading for that favorite fishing retreat, Freshman athletes will have to wait until the fall before they can win a letter. Competition during the next two months will be strictly informal...
...Retailers, worried about possible price drops, were not buying as fast as they had been. As a result, the movement of goods from manufacturers slowed down. Another $450 million in goods piled up in manufacturers' inventories in April. This boosted them to $22 billion, almost twice the prewar peak...
...this state of affairs was the "grey market daisy chain" of steel brokers. The committee was not able to pin down the exact workings of the grey market. But the plain assumption was that steel flowed into it from brokers able to buy from mills, by virtue of prewar dealings, or from manufacturing companies with excess supplies. Instead of canceling their mill orders, as they usually would, these companies took delivery and turned the steel over to brokers at a fat profit. As each party in this daisy chain got his cut, the price was run up and steel...
...Texas farmers began threshing the greatest winter wheat crop in U.S. history this week, the news for the world's hungry was good. Best estimates place the crop at 1.3 billion bushels, more than double any average prewar year. But the chances of starting the wheat on its way promptly are worse than ever. Fewer boxcars are available than in the worst war years. In the Texas Panhandle, farmers are already scouting around for circus tents to cover the grain on the ground until the railroads can move it. As the harvesters move north in the next month...
...million tons of sugar, or almost half of this year's total world sugar supply of 15 million tons. The U.S. share is 1.4 million tons more than last year. The supply, enough for 85 to 90 pounds per capita, will still be short of the prewar consumption of 96.5 Ibs., and sugar men think that present demand is enough to push consumption up to 100 Ibs. if consumers could get all the sugar they want. So even if rationing is maintained until the Oct. 31 deadline, the sugar industry expects retail prices to jump when free trading...